gasparri

Posted 13 September 2012 - 08:38 AM

It's been a while since I last had the opportunity to acquaint you with my work. In the last three years, I dedicated all of my time and knowledge to make new panoramic map of Germany.

First something about inspiration.
Drawing inspiration I got from Mr. H.C. Berann. Mr. Berann is probably the highest authority in the field of panoramic cartography. Many solutions for making my map I got from his work. In all that time, three years, I realized the way how he "cheated" to get the right panoramic forms of hills and the Alps in general.

Now, something about my work process.
As a starting point I took classic cartographic map (1:50.000) and began to refine it with software, which is the most suitable for this kind of work - Photoshop. I wanted to achieve something that seems to me is the future of cartography in general. To combine cartographic accuracy and panoramic view in one map. This I succeeded, at least vertical measure corresponds to a cartographic map scale 1:50,000.
Map is drawn in several layers. I separated forests, valleys, cities, alps, so that each of the layers could later be color corrected. This gives me almost endless possibilities of coloring the map.
Lakes, rivers, roads, names and border I have made in a vector program because they had to be more precise.

I wish to receive many of your suggestions, opinions and reviews about my project. Your comments mean the most to me and I'll be happy to take them into account
Best regards,
Bojan Simoncic

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Posted 14 September 2012 - 12:23 AM

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It's a very attractive and impressive map. Richard Edes Harrison (1901-1994) was very well known for his perspective maps and his work is still widely admired. You might want to look at http://www.fulltable.../map/reh/12.jpg and http://www.fulltable.../map/reh/13.jpg (two frames from one map). One thing I like is his use of a faint graticule of meridians and parallels, which gives a greater sense of perspective.

While the light horizon is of course realistic, I believe that Harrison's use of darkening toward the horizon actually tends to produce a better sense of depth. It seems rather incongruous that your land darkens in the distance but your sea becomes brighter.

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Posted 14 September 2012 - 08:41 AM

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Thank you for your compliments, especially I'm glad to see some constructive criticism. Proposal to put sea labels into perspective seems excellent to me and I will consider it.
Clouds are made as a compromise because of our perception of space. And they are not in scale, correct.
Dark horizon is a result of our perception of light. However here I have some thoughts about how to finish it.
Mr. Herrison's work is excellent, even more if you follow the time in which he was making these outstanding maps. However, I derive more from the painting as a cartographic area. I think this to areas need to be brought more closer together.

Currently I preparing a map for use in the German school system. Therefore, I reduced some of the content on map and take away some color contrast so that signs came more to the fore. I realize that map will lost some of color depth, but the panorama is always about weigh between functional usability and first impression. Map will be published in the dimension of 140 x 190 cm, will be printed on canvas and equipped with wooden or aluminum slats. I also have to make a legend witch I’ll probably put in the bottom of map.
Below I attach a detail. In short time I also plan to have a website where will be images in higher resolutions, here I am unfortunately limited to 1Mb: (
Please continue with constructive criticism All the best,
Bojan

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Igor Brejc

Posted 14 September 2012 - 11:15 AM

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Below I attach a detail. In short time I also plan to have a website where will be images in higher resolutions, here I am unfortunately limited to 1Mb: (Please continue with constructive criticism All the best,Bojan

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Posted 14 September 2012 - 08:18 PM

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I think it's really nice. I like the bright colors. The clouds give a nice ending focal point, too.

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Posted 01 October 2012 - 11:04 AM

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I also think the map is brilliant! I would only suggest that you make the country labels larger and consider letter spacing country type. This would help make the country type more different from the largest city type. Are you planning to label DEUTSCHLAND on the map (I could not find it)?

woneil

Posted 03 October 2012 - 01:12 AM

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I can imagine that schoolchildren would find your map absolutely fascinating. I'm sure many will want to spend hours just tracing out all its details. My congratulations to the schools that are wise enough to want it.

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Posted 03 October 2012 - 10:32 AM

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Thank you guys! All together it took me 3 years. First year I started with 2 maps at the same time. Also Germany but facing south. However I than decided that I would do just north one.
Maybe I`ll finish it someday

The labels are still in construction. This is also the last stage, after that it will be possible to buy it online.
I`ll be happy to take all your suggestions into account. Thank you again!